Dehradun: After the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) eliminated its state pracharak (chief) in Uttarakhand, Yudhveer Singh, and his co-in-charge Devender Chauhan from their posts earlier this week, in what the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) management within the state has described as a routine improvement, the Congress has stated the transfer has vindicated its stand. The RSS is the ideological fount of the BJP.
The choice to take away Singh and Chauhan from their posts was taken on the just-concluded four-day Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal assembly (All India Government Board assembly) of the RSS, held 16 and 20 between October in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh and got here amidst allegations made by the opposition of their involvement in appointments to state meeting places of work and different recruitment scams within the state.
Whereas Singh has been made the publicity head of the UP East chapter of Sewa Bharati, a frontal organisation of the RSS, Chauhan has been shifted to the Una centre of the Sangh’s northern area in Himachal Pradesh.
Welcoming the transfer, former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and Congress chief, Harish Rawat informed ThePrint, “Our stand has been vindicated by the elimination of the RSS state chief and his deputy from Uttarakhand.”
He added: “They’ve accepted the costs of misusing his workplace to supply authorities jobs to his kin. However the harm to employment alternatives of Uttarakhand locals has already been executed. It seems that the Sangh management was delicate to the costs in opposition to them, however the state authorities has failed in its responsibility in direction of folks of Uttarakhand.”
Final month all 228 appointments made within the meeting secretariat since 2016 had been revoked by the current meeting speaker Ritu Khanduri primarily based on the suggestions of a high-level committee. ThePrint reached Kandhuri on name and textual content messages, however the speaker declined remark saying that the matter was subjudice.
The Congress has additionally been demanding a CBI probe into different alleged recruitment scams within the state, together with the Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Choice Fee (UKSSSC) query paper leak case.
Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Karan Mahara and the Uttarakhand in-charge of the All India Congress Committe (AICC) Devendra Yadav had held a media briefing final month, throughout which they’d accused RSS leaders, together with Singh, of being concerned in recruitment scams within the state.
In the meantime, senior RSS chief and BJP’s state normal secretary Ajay Kumar, tried to minimize the implications of the 2 transfers.
“The switch of the 2 workplace bearers was a routine choice taken by all-India govt board in Prayagraj. A number of others had been additionally transferred within the Prayaragraj meet of the Karyakari Mandal. Determination concerning switch of pracharaks are largely taken within the annual conclave of Karyakari Mandal and Pratinidhi Sabha (home of representatives). It has nothing to do with any criticism in opposition to them,” Kumar stated.
Some senior workplace bearers within the RSS workplace in Dehradun informed ThePrint, nevertheless, that the transfers had been the results of senior RSS leaders being sad in regards to the fixed detrimental suggestions in opposition to the 2 leaders from the employees. The RSS management was additionally allegedly sad over Singh and Chauhan’s names surfacing within the Uttarakhand state meeting secretariat appointments rip-off and appointment irregularities in different departments, which has come as a giant embarrassment for the Pushkar Singh Dhami authorities within the state.
“There have been a number of complaints in opposition to Yudhvir Singh and Devendra Chauhan by frequent RSS employees. Many employees complained of being ignored by the 2 leaders. Then again these leaders themselves performed a task in getting authorities advantages for themselves and their shut ones. Their names showing in meeting secretariat appointments rip-off was the fast purpose for the motion in opposition to them,” stated a senior RSS workplace bearer in Dehradun on situation of anonymity.
ThePrint reached Singh on name however acquired no response until the time of publication of this report.
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Alleged unlawful appointments took social media by storm
As allegations of nepotism in opposition to Premchand Agarwal surfaced in August, the checklist of some authorities workers allegedly appointed on political suggestions began doing the rounds of social media.
Harish Rawat too had shared two lists on Fb, in a publish dated 17 September.
“I’ve been offered 20 such lists by some investigators. I’m posting two of them on my Fb web page,” Rawat had written.
These lists carried the names of 52 workers, allegedly appointed on political suggestions in numerous departments. The lists talked about that the names had been a quick instance of “RSS prant pracharak utilizing his political clout to supply authorities jobs to his kin in Uttarakhand between 2017 and 2022”.
Rawat, nevertheless, later withdrew the lists saying that although he had little doubt as to their factual accuracy, however he had “requested his sources to additional confirm” all of the names talked about in them.
Each lists had by then already been shared by many social media handles, earlier than a delegation of RSS leaders met DGP Ashok Kumar and urged him to take motion in opposition to these accountable for circulating the faux lists.
“Lists posted in my Fb web page had been true in each sense. It has additionally been stamped by the choice of RSS to shift its state head from Uttarakhand” Harish Rawat informed ThePrint.
RSS vibhag pracharak Bjagwat ji, then again, averted touch upon the difficulty and stated, “I can not touch upon the choice taken by the central board and representatives’ physique. Solely Yudhvir Singh can say something on the matter as he took half within the meetimg at Prayagraj.”
In the meantime, Congress has demanded that Premchand Agarawal be faraway from the cupboard, alleging, “elimination of Singh and Chauhan from Dehradun” was a direct proof of corruption within the BJP authorities and now the Chief Minister should act.
“Elimination of Singh and Chauhan from Uttarakhand is proof that BJP authorities is neck-deep in corrupt practices. They had been a part of the nepotism and favouritism practiced by Dhami authorities in appointments in state meeting secratariat and different departments with out even holding any screening checks. Now the Chief Minister should act and drop Premchand Agarwal from his cupboard” stated Mahara.
(Edited by Poulomi Banerjee)
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